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“THOSE WHO COUNT THE VOTES DECIDE EVERYTHING”

Posted on December 3, 2005
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On Nov 2nd, 2004, George Bush was losing nationally by 3% to Kerry and
by a huge Electoral College landslide. 
Exit polls from across the country showed that the Bush agenda was being
repudiated, and
America wanted a new direction.  Then, late in the evening, a massive shift
occurred, and Bush won by 2.5%, and also won a narrow Electoral College victory
as
Ohio was finally conceded. 
The 5.5% shift from exit poll predictions was, coincidentally, the same
margin as happened in the
Ukraine a month later. 

Studies done since the
election show that the shift in “actual” results from exit polls is
way outside the margin of error for such polls of actual voters, and that the
odds of this happening by chance are about 1 in 250 million, or essentially an
impossibility.  Another study estimates
that 4.4 million Kerry votes were switched to Bush as the election drew to a
close. Bush had his mandate.  Electronic
machines with proprietary software and no paper trail had their president!

As we move into another
election cycle, attention is turning to the desire to elect new representatives
to change the direction we are being taken by this criminal
administration.  As we go out to get
support and participation for the World Can’t Wait movement, we will encounter
many who plan to pour their energy and money into changing Congress so that
something can be done to stop this regime from inflicting further damage.  They are doomed to fail. 

For those who harbor such
illusions, we must be prepared to show them that the election system is now
under the firm control of this regime and their supporters.  There is no better example than the recent
vote in
Ohio, where a number of measures designed to reform the
voting system failed after polls showed the opposite intent of voters.  One measure that had 59% support in the poll
received only 36% support of the “votes”.  Others failed with large swings as well. 

Up to now, most of the stolen
elections in 2002 and 2004 for Congress and the presidency have been in
relatively close contests, and the doubt about election rigging has been passed
off onto failures of the polls, saying they were flawed.  Now, in
Ohio, they are showing that even elections that are not
close can be rigged, and they don’t give a damn if we know it.  In fact, they may even be so cocky now that
they want us to know that they control the machines, and that our votes don’t
matter any more.  As Stalin said,
“those who vote decide nothing. 
Those who count the votes decide everything”. 

We can talk about all the
crimes this administration is guilty of with people, but if they still believe
that they can vote them out, we can’t get them to see why what we are doing is
the ONLY pathway to removing them.  They
will waste their time and money attempting once again to “get out the
vote”, when all it takes now is one guy sitting behind a computer
somewhere to “win” any election they choose. 

We must be bold in making the
case that elections are now in the hands of this regime.  There are many studies available now that
essentially prove this.

The article below is a good
example of the incredible arrogance now in place, and the degree to which they
don’t even try now to hide this.  Anyone
who believes

in our system of accountability
should understand this reality, and be outraged by this situation.

As Bob points out below in ‘Poll
Shock’, the mainstream media will not take this issue on.  They are firmly in the pocket of the powers
that be, and it is up to us to provide the evidence for those still believing
that our vote matters in
America.  This is
difficult to communicate to those who can’t accept that it can’t happen here, but
it is essential to gaining a commitment to the pathway we offer, where the only
vote that still matters can and must now be exercised.  

I strongly recommend that we
confront those who still wish to pour their energy into elections with the
evidence now available.  In addition to
the article below, there are others Bob has written on his website at commonwonders.com
(See “The Silent Scream of Numbers”), and many studies available on
the inter-net to help us all understand this reality.  Most people, at one level, probably suspect
this to be true, but are reluctant to admit it, even to themselves.  Our certainty and willingness to assert it as
fact may break them free from this last obstacle to their passionate commitment
to engaging with us in this last best hope to free ourselves from the tyranny
we have fallen under.  If we truly want
to get millions to support us and to stand with us, we must help them to
recognize that they will now have to vote in their millions with their bodies
to get the attention of this regime.  THE
WORLD CAN’T WAIT for the next election.

Jim

‘Poll Shock’  by Robert Koehler, Tribune Media Services

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm

‘The Silent Scream of Numbers’

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col290.htm

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